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  Conficker.AA_3
Conficker.AA_3 is a Worm. Worms are reproducing malicious programs that run independently and travel across network connections without human action. They could spread over email, IM, peer-to-peer networks, or directly over the wire by leveraging vulnerabilities. The threat that a worm poses is its capability to replicate itself on the system so the computer can send out hundreds or thousands of copies of itself.

      Process Related Changes
      It creates the following mutex(es):
      • "sstfkblpivuniif"
      • "IESQMMUTEX_0_208"
      • "CB35EF5D-4591-41d9-BBA2-0363342F3783"

      It creates the following process(es):
      • C:\windows\temp\dllinject.exe

      Network Activity
      It attempts to connect to the following remote servers:
      • checkip.dyndns.com:80 (91.198xxxxxx)

      We observed the following DNS query/queries:
      • checkip.dyndns.org


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